Improvement in cartridge-boxes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUSTUS A, BENNETT, OE. CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARTRIDGE-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,485, dated January27, 1863.

1'0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS A. BENNETT, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county,Ohio, have invented a new and useful Cartridge-Box and l do herebydeclare that the following isa full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part ofthis specification.

My invention relates to anew manufacture of self-closin g cartridge-box,as hereinafter set forth.

A is the outer casing of a cartridge-box, which casing may be ofleather, enameled cloth, or other suitable substance. B is a sheetmetallining to the same.

0 is a leather cover, attached by one edge to the rear of the box,criinped to a semi-cylindrical form, and lined with a semi-cylindricalstrip of sheet metal, D.

The strip E, stud F, and suspending loop or loops Gr may be of anyapproved form. H H are two steel-plate springs, the lower portions ofwhich are straight and are securely riveted between the rear portion ofthe leather box and its metallic lining, while the upper portions of thesaid springs are curved forward to correspond with the arch of the coverand simply play between the leather and metallic portions of the coverwithout being attached to either. They'thus act to insure the closing ofthe cover whenever the box is not in use, while they are at the sametime adapted to yield readily to an opening pressure applied to thecover.

I claim as a new and useful article of manufacture- The cartridge-box AB, whose cover CD is made self-closing by means of one or more metallicsprings, H H, constructed, adapted, and operating in the mannerdescribed.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

AUGUSTUS A. BENNETT. Witnesses:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, WlLLIAM STANTON.

